This book is the first travel diary published in Russian for an expedition to Western Tibet, to the sacred Mount Kailash, undertaken in 1935 by the famous Italian orientalist Giuseppe Tucci (1894-1984). The tireless researcher of the Himalayas and Snegov Countries made 14 expeditions to different regions of Tibet and Nepal, during which invaluable collections of ancient manuscripts and art monuments were collected, for the first time new routes were laid along the hitherto unknown alpine trails of the Roof of the World.